The fab lab scene isgrowing quickly. In the future we will go from fab labs to fab cities. Instead of atoms (products) travelling around the world just bits (data) will be travelling, the manufacturing of the physical goods will happen locally.

Our cities are in a shift (and here comes the model):

From PRODUCTS IN & WASTE OUT to DATA IN & DATA OUT

I really like that model! I can think of all sorts of data streams coming in and going out and doing that job (the constant refurbishing and recycling there in the middle!), but almost all of them require full transparency and openness on the level of products and waste- as well as resource-streams!

Join us at the OSCEdays and help us to discover the details of and the stepping stones towards: From PRODUCTS IN & WASTE OUT to DATA IN & DATA OUT.

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S O M E V I D E O S

For you to get more into the field:

FAB10 Docu:

OSVehicle Spot:

OSVehicle is one of the open-source-car-projects in the world and they made this amazing video explaining the possibilities of open source for the Data In & Data Out concept.

Neil Gershenfeld TED:

This is a 2006 (!) TED talk by Neil Gershenfeld about the fab lab concept. Its almost 10 years old but still sounds like from the future. It will take us years to understand all the implications, I guess. Truly great.